Fables of globalization: race, sex and money in nineteenth-century Latin America

Beckman, Ericka

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“…Likewise, Van Vleet writes of a tinku fighter whose narrative “identifies with his ethnic group ( ayllu , Quechua) and male relatives and simultaneously claims belonging to a ‘more modern’ Bolivian nation… forg[ing] a complex, layered identity that imbricates ethnicity, masculinity, violence, and citizenship” (Van Vleet 2010: 197). Swinehart argues that representations of time, through maps, clocks, and even spaceships, are used as icons of differences between indigenous and European worldviews in Bolivian politics (2019), a point that echoes Beckman’s “fables of globalization” through analysis of 19th‐century literary texts that look both to the past, through Peruvian “Westerns,” and to the future, through science fiction (Beckman 2009, 2013).…”

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The Sweet Land: Manufacturing “Tradition” in Small‐Town Bolivia

Babel

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Chronotopes have been described as "envelopes" of time and space that provide the setting for the circulation of particular types of characters or personae (Silverstein 2005, Agha 2007, Bakhtin 1981, 1986. In this article, I investigate how these narratives of time and space are used to produce meaning in conjunction with structured relationships between groups of social categories, particularly discourses of tradition and modernity. Specifically, I examine the ways in which local actors shape and imagine how Saipina, a small town in central Bolivia, is represented to outside audiences. Influential actors produce a set of artifacts that represent the town, as well as a series of narratives that overlay values such as hard work and agricultural roots with goods such as sugarcane and chancaca, a raw sugar product, in representing the town to outside audiences. [Andean studies, branding, chronotopes, history, modernity, semiotic fields, sugarcane, tradition] History, it could be argued, is local knowledge par excellence.

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The Sweet Land: Manufacturing “Tradition” in Small‐Town Bolivia

Babel

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Tales of incan gold in an era of guano: Juana manuela gorriti's precious metal melodramas

Burner¹

2018

Hispanic Review

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José María Vergara y Vergara, el agiotista: la invención del cuerpo crediticio de la nación en los cuadros de costumbres

Sánchez Rodríguez

2023

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A partir de una relectura de la obra del letrado conservador colombiano José María Vergara y Vergara (1831-1872) a la luz de las ansiedades financieras de mediados de siglo, este artículo argumenta que la escritura de tipos y costumbres es una estética de acreditación. Aunque investi-gaciones recientes han enfatizado su función biopolítica, estas valiosas contribuciones han pasado por alto cómo estos “cuadros” inventaron el cuerpo crediticio de la nación. En ellos, los criollos pusieron en circulación “tipos” cuyos rasgos morales, inscritos en el cuerpo, funcionaban como un perfil etnofinanciero que avaluaba su supuesto potencial para crear valor. Si en un plano geopolítico, el criollo imagina su literatura como una imitación de géneros europeos que se negocia “al descuento”, dentro del estado-nación el criollo se concibe como el equivalente universal. Esta lógica monetaria le permitió al sujeto criollo imaginarse como acreedor de un “pueblo” minusválido cuyo trabajo podía gobernar y explotar.

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Fables of globalization: race, sex and money in nineteenth-century Latin America

Cited by 3 publications

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The Sweet Land: Manufacturing “Tradition” in Small‐Town Bolivia

The Sweet Land: Manufacturing “Tradition” in Small‐Town Bolivia

Tales of incan gold in an era of guano: Juana manuela gorriti's precious metal melodramas

José María Vergara y Vergara, el agiotista: la invención del cuerpo crediticio de la nación en los cuadros de costumbres

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